Prof. Dr. Jiangbi Hu received the B.Sc. degree in engineering from the Department of Management Engineering at Xi'an Highway Institute (now Chang'an University), majoring in transportation management, in 1987; the M.Sc. degree in engineering from Xi'an Highway Institute, majoring in road engineering management, in 1993; and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Beijing University of Technology, majoring in transportation planning and management, in 2005. From 2012 to 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA. Since 1993, she has been a professor in the School of Urban Transportation at Beijing University of Technology. Her research interests mainly focus on engineering theory and technology for the safe operation of roads, bridges, and tunnels; economic analysis and technical theory for the entire life cycle of road engineering; and theory and technology for road asset management. She is currently a Class A cost engineer, project manager, and supervision engineer for the Ministry of Transport.